A Case of Chicken-Pox Pneumonia with X-Ray Findings Suggesting Metastatic Carcinoma

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VARICELLA is ordinarily considered to be a benign, self-limited disease of children. That it also occurs in adults is well known. Less well appreciated, however, is the fact that, in adults in particular, the disease may be complicated by pneumonia. Tan, Kaufman and Levene,1 in 1956, reported 16 cases of varicella pneumonia in adults. They noted that before their report only 15 similar cases had been recorded. This paper concerns still another case of pneumonia complicating varicella in an adult. Of added interest is the fact that the x-ray appearance of the lungs caused confusion at first with metastatic cancer. . . .

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